Harper: The Grammar Checker That Stays on Your Machine
Grammarly is a privacy nightmare. LanguageTool needs 16GB of data. Harper is the offline grammar checker nobody talks about enough — and it belongs in your editor.
Software worth knowing about — what it replaces, where it breaks, whether I kept it.
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Grammarly is a privacy nightmare. LanguageTool needs 16GB of data. Harper is the offline grammar checker nobody talks about enough — and it belongs in your editor.
DocuSign charges $40/month. DocuSeal gives you the same core workflow in a Docker container that costs you nothing.
A single binary that reads, writes, and creates Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on Linux — no Office, no LibreOffice, no conversion artifacts.
You've spent years building Photoshop muscle memory. Every time you sit down in GIMP, your hands try to use it — and GIMP doesn't cooperate. PhotoGIMP fixes
Mozilla killed Pocket. Your browser bookmarks are a graveyard. Karakeep is a self-hosted bookmark manager with AI tagging, full-page archiving, and video hoarding — and it runs entirely on your own hardware.
You registered an account on a forum in 2011, used the same handle on six other platforms, and forgot about all of them. They're still out there. maigret finds them.
Google killed Google Trips. TripIt wants your credit card. And shared Google Sheets "trip planners" are just organized suffering. If you've been self-hosting everything else — photos,
Save As has been lying to you for decades. Kage clones websites the right way — renders with real Chrome, strips all JavaScript, and packs the result into files you can actually keep.
BentoPDF: The PDF Toolkit That Actually Gets Privacy Right I've watched the PDF toolkit space for years. Most tools either send your documents to mysterious servers or consume
OpenScreen: Screen Studio Without the Subscription Screen recording tools charge like luxury software but deliver basic functionality. Screen Studio wants $29/month for what amounts to recording your screen with
TUI Studio: Visual Terminal UI Design Finally Gets the Figma Treatment Terminal UIs are everywhere. htop, lazygit, k9s — every tool that makes the command line bearable lives in that text-only
You pause a video game mid-level, shut down your computer, fly to another continent, boot up a different machine, and resume exactly where you left off — same health, same position,